If you thought slavery was outlawed in America‚ you would be wrong. Slavery was abolished in 1865‚ but a loophole in the 13 Amendment has allowed it to continue as a punishment for crimes. Even though the USA make up 5 percent of the world’s population‚ they still house one fourth of all incarcerated people in the world. The statistics make this look really bad for the country‚ however‚ the privet prisons incarcerating prisoners for the government‚ are actually making money on every cell empty
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CrimeSolutions.gov is a website established by The National Institute of Corrections agency which is within the Department of Justice Programs. According to the website the program rates a green status which means it is effective. There are three ratings‚ Green which indicates a program is effective‚ Yellow gives the program a promising
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about a four minute video on Hulu. The starts out by talking about the population of America which is about “5% of the world but the prison system in the U.S. has about over a .25% of them in jail” (Noah) which is ridiculous. Congress calls it the Corrections Act of 2015 where they have reduce the 3 strike policy towards nonviolent offenders to 25 years‚ so like the drug users or the people who sell it and also limit making a mandatory 10 year sentences along with other problems they wish to change.
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The role leadership plays in correctional facilities‚ is putting prisoners in isolation for weeks‚ months‚ and even years at a time is standard operating procedure. Solitary confinement is used in prisons‚ to keep order among troubled‚ and dangerous inmates. As described by Hatch‚ 2013‚ “institutionalization‚ presents the myth that hides an organizations behavior from the public view and allows cooptation of resources to go undetected for long periods of time” (Hatch‚ & Cunliffe 2013‚ pg. 36). Correctional
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(Worldometers‚ 2016; World Prison Brief‚ 2016). California reached a peak prison population in 2006 with 173‚479 inmates but is currently on the decline due to new policies and reentry programs offered in and out of prisons (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [CDCR]‚ 2016). According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (2016) at least 95% of prisoners in the United States will be released from prison at some
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Critical response question #1-week 5 by Ricky Osei-kusi Canada can be seen as polar opposites from the United States of America on many different levels such as health care‚ firearm laws and population. Although these two countries share similarities when it comes to prisons and how they are run. I believe Canada implies a prison industrial complex because of the ideologies‚ legislation and criminal justice goals that allow for the prison industrial complexes to thrive and expand. A prison industrial
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Cindy Arana Corrections 01 Professor Caballero March 27‚ 2016 Assignment 3 Reentry programs within our community have a successful rate helping felons and ex drug users reintegrate back into our community. I chose to do my assignment on the Santa Clara county reentry services‚ with their mission “To reduce recidivism by using evidence-based practices in implementing a seamless system of services‚ supports‚ and supervision”. Those with a criminal history face many challenges in receiving public benefits
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The use of private prisons are worth more than 70 billion dollars. The idea of private prisons came across in the United States in the early 1980’s. Although many people want to ban private prisons the United States should keep private prisons because of money‚ treatment‚ and economy. To begin‚ the use of private prisons save the state money‚ Private prisons allow the state to save money‚ Public prison endorse money from the state‚ on the other hand private institutions do not. “Ira P. Robbins
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I have had several discussion from my previous criminall justice class espicially in my corrections class. I find it rather interesting how twenty years ago we were looking at a very different America. Our societal approach of "Get Tough on Crime"‚ has been without transpearncy. As the articles has show in the past twenty years we have seen a huge decline‚ with this‚ we must examine why. The article you linked us‚ has used six findings that are largely related to the decline. As the text has put
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"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Because I agree with Mahatma Gandhi‚ I affirm the resolution which states Resolved: Rehabilitation ought to be valued above Retribution in the US Criminal Justice System. To clarify the round‚ I offer the following definitions: Retribution: punishment is intentional harming‚ with the aim of harming. (Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Nick Smith‚ University of New Hampshire Department of Philosophy) Ought to be valued above: Moral
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